Musharraf faces arrest on return

ISLAMABAD: Former president Pervez Musharraf will face arrest if he returns to Pakistan after police registered a case against him on Tuesday over his detention of judges during 2007. “He could either be arrested on his return or through Interpol,” said Hakam Khan, head of a police station in Islamabad where the case was lodged. If convicted, Musharraf could be jailed for three years, he added. “He detained judges and ousted them illegally so he has to be tried for his illegal and unconstitutional actions,” Muhammad Aslam Ghuman, the lawyer who filed the case against Musharraf, told Reuters. Additional Sessions Judge Akmal Khan had ordered the Secretariat police to register the FIR on the application of Ghuman during a hearing on Monday. Muhammad Ali Saif, Musharraf’s legal adviser, lashed out against the case registration. “There is no reality in these accusations, we don’t accept it, a lobby funded by Nawaz Sharif is behind all this drama,” he told AFP. Praising the case registration, a PML-N spokesman reiterated calls for Musharraf to stand trial for high treason. fazal sher/agencies

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